The Great Pyramid Prophecy Tradition of Charles Piazzi Smyth

Record summary

Astronomer Charles Piazzi Smyth promoted interpretations of the Great Pyramid’s measurements as encoding sacred chronology, and later writers expanded these ideas into predictions concerning biblical history and future events. The lead matters because it links Egyptology, Protestant prophecy, metrology, and nineteenth-century esoteric universal history. Smyth’s measurements and interpretations can be traced through published works, while later prophetic schemes often altered his claims. Mainstream Egyptology does not accept the pyramid as an intentional prophetic calendar, and researchers should track transmission between authors.